Regis College
Young School of Nursing
NU 340, Community Health Nursing
Spring 2019
Take-Home Exam One
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Directions:
Gather your textbook, PowerPoint slides, and other anticipated resources.
Prior to starting the exam, be sure to familiarize yourself with the following textbook
content: Chapters 1, 2, 21, 5, 18, and 46. In addition, please review in-class and out-of-class
discussions, articles, news and video clips, and Moodle content. Consider your clinical
experiences, community assessment work, Nutrition ATI content, medication safety and
calculation knowledge, and Institute for Healthcare Improvement modules as well.
Organize your individual testing resources. You are free to utilize your textbook, PowerPoint
slides, online sites, and other materials to complete the exam.
Please avail yourself of all course Moodle site learning materials as well.
Your submission, despite the availability of open resources, is expected to be uniquely yours.
Clearly indicate your responses to all questions (e.g., highlight in yellow the correct answer or
delete all the incorrect responses). Do make your answers absolutely explicit.
Do submit your answers as a Microsoft Word document (i.e., not Pages, other). Non-Word
formatted submissions may not be accepted.
Any legitimate, scholarly reference (e.g., textbook, newspaper, journal, respectable online
resource) is permitted when answering questions that request inclusion of a least one reference.
Opinion blogs, Wikipedia, social media sites, and other such unsubstantiated, unscholarly
resources are not acceptable references.
FOR PART B of the exam: Be sure to include in-text citations in your short answer responses.
Do not simply write your response and include the reference citation(s) at the bottom of your
answer. Be sure to demonstrate explicitly within the body of your answer how you have
supported your response with the selected references. Failure to do so will result in lost points.
All references must be cited appropriately using APA (6 th ed.) format.
Presentation/formatting issues (e.g., spelling, grammar, punctuation, APA, plagiarism, failure to
cite, etc.) will result in lost points.
Submit your answers to the Moodle submission box on or before MARCH 11, 2019, at 9:00
AM. Be sure to include your name on the uploaded submission.
No late submissions will be accepted without prior written instructor approval.
Good luck!
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Part A: QUESTIONS BY TEXTBOOK CHAPTER and ASSORTED CONTENT
Number of Questions in This Section: 40 Questions
Point Value: 2 Points/Question
Chapter One:
1. A marker of Affordable Care Act enactment success is?
a. A greater percentage of the population is covered by insurance
b. The prevalence of hypertension remains unchanged
c. Public health departments offer more nursing positions
d. Americans pay closer attention to their health status
2. List and briefly define the three core functions of public health.
Answer:
1. Assessment: Collecting data, monitoring public’s health status, making information easily
NU 340, Spring 2019, Take-Home Exam ONE Page 1 of 12
, available to the public.
2. Policy Development: Helps to develop policies that would benefit the overall health of the public
and helps to make policy decisions using scientific knowledge.
3. Assurance: Public health officials work to make available important community-oriented health
services.
3. One of the core public health functions is assessment of the health status of a community. Which
of the following questions would be asked in the assessment phase?
a. What programs are available to reduce the risk of cardiac disease in the population?
b. What educational materials are needed to inform the community about environmental risk
factors?
c. What is the prevalence rate of hypertension about various age, race, and gender groups in
the community?
d. What types of public transportation are needed in the community to ensure access to
services?
4. Increase in life span of the human population can be principally attributed to what ?
a. Increased focus on and funding for public health
b. Reform of the medical insurance system
c. Improvements in sanitation, safety, nutrition, and housing
d. Improvements in medical knowledge and treatment approaches
5. A public health nurse establishes a cardiac rehabilitation program for cardiac patients living in the
community. Which of the following best describes establishment of this program?
a. Health education
b. Policy making
c. Primary prevention
d. Tertiary prevention
6. Joseph, a community-based registered nurse, would be most likely respons ible for completing which of
the following?
a. Assessing the health needs of a community
b. Providing care to individuals in a community
c. Promoting the health of an entire community
d. Investigating occupational health hazards in a community
7. A school nurse is conducting hearing screenings on children in the district elementary school.
Which type of nursing practice is the nurse performing?
a. Population health
b. Public health
c. Community-oriented
d. Community-based
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Young School of Nursing
NU 340, Community Health Nursing
Spring 2019
Take-Home Exam One
__________________________________________________________________________________
Directions:
Gather your textbook, PowerPoint slides, and other anticipated resources.
Prior to starting the exam, be sure to familiarize yourself with the following textbook
content: Chapters 1, 2, 21, 5, 18, and 46. In addition, please review in-class and out-of-class
discussions, articles, news and video clips, and Moodle content. Consider your clinical
experiences, community assessment work, Nutrition ATI content, medication safety and
calculation knowledge, and Institute for Healthcare Improvement modules as well.
Organize your individual testing resources. You are free to utilize your textbook, PowerPoint
slides, online sites, and other materials to complete the exam.
Please avail yourself of all course Moodle site learning materials as well.
Your submission, despite the availability of open resources, is expected to be uniquely yours.
Clearly indicate your responses to all questions (e.g., highlight in yellow the correct answer or
delete all the incorrect responses). Do make your answers absolutely explicit.
Do submit your answers as a Microsoft Word document (i.e., not Pages, other). Non-Word
formatted submissions may not be accepted.
Any legitimate, scholarly reference (e.g., textbook, newspaper, journal, respectable online
resource) is permitted when answering questions that request inclusion of a least one reference.
Opinion blogs, Wikipedia, social media sites, and other such unsubstantiated, unscholarly
resources are not acceptable references.
FOR PART B of the exam: Be sure to include in-text citations in your short answer responses.
Do not simply write your response and include the reference citation(s) at the bottom of your
answer. Be sure to demonstrate explicitly within the body of your answer how you have
supported your response with the selected references. Failure to do so will result in lost points.
All references must be cited appropriately using APA (6 th ed.) format.
Presentation/formatting issues (e.g., spelling, grammar, punctuation, APA, plagiarism, failure to
cite, etc.) will result in lost points.
Submit your answers to the Moodle submission box on or before MARCH 11, 2019, at 9:00
AM. Be sure to include your name on the uploaded submission.
No late submissions will be accepted without prior written instructor approval.
Good luck!
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Part A: QUESTIONS BY TEXTBOOK CHAPTER and ASSORTED CONTENT
Number of Questions in This Section: 40 Questions
Point Value: 2 Points/Question
Chapter One:
1. A marker of Affordable Care Act enactment success is?
a. A greater percentage of the population is covered by insurance
b. The prevalence of hypertension remains unchanged
c. Public health departments offer more nursing positions
d. Americans pay closer attention to their health status
2. List and briefly define the three core functions of public health.
Answer:
1. Assessment: Collecting data, monitoring public’s health status, making information easily
NU 340, Spring 2019, Take-Home Exam ONE Page 1 of 12
, available to the public.
2. Policy Development: Helps to develop policies that would benefit the overall health of the public
and helps to make policy decisions using scientific knowledge.
3. Assurance: Public health officials work to make available important community-oriented health
services.
3. One of the core public health functions is assessment of the health status of a community. Which
of the following questions would be asked in the assessment phase?
a. What programs are available to reduce the risk of cardiac disease in the population?
b. What educational materials are needed to inform the community about environmental risk
factors?
c. What is the prevalence rate of hypertension about various age, race, and gender groups in
the community?
d. What types of public transportation are needed in the community to ensure access to
services?
4. Increase in life span of the human population can be principally attributed to what ?
a. Increased focus on and funding for public health
b. Reform of the medical insurance system
c. Improvements in sanitation, safety, nutrition, and housing
d. Improvements in medical knowledge and treatment approaches
5. A public health nurse establishes a cardiac rehabilitation program for cardiac patients living in the
community. Which of the following best describes establishment of this program?
a. Health education
b. Policy making
c. Primary prevention
d. Tertiary prevention
6. Joseph, a community-based registered nurse, would be most likely respons ible for completing which of
the following?
a. Assessing the health needs of a community
b. Providing care to individuals in a community
c. Promoting the health of an entire community
d. Investigating occupational health hazards in a community
7. A school nurse is conducting hearing screenings on children in the district elementary school.
Which type of nursing practice is the nurse performing?
a. Population health
b. Public health
c. Community-oriented
d. Community-based
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